Numbers 2 and 3 and Range of Sheds to Left Syke House

NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND RANGE OF SHEDS TO LEFT, 2 AND 3, SYKE COTTAGES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121847
Date first listed:
17-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Numbers 2 and 3 and Range of Sheds to Left Syke House
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND RANGE OF SHEDS TO LEFT, 2 AND 3, SYKE COTTAGES
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121847
Date first listed:
17-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Numbers 2 and 3 and Range of Sheds to Left Syke House
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND RANGE OF SHEDS TO LEFT, 2 AND 3, SYKE COTTAGES
Statutory Address 2:
SYKE HOUSE, 1, SYKE COTTAGES

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND RANGE OF SHEDS TO LEFT, 2 AND 3, SYKE COTTAGES
Statutory Address:
SYKE HOUSE, 1, SYKE COTTAGES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Mickleton
National Grid Reference:
NY 96679 23754

Details

MICKLETON SYKE COTTAGES NY 9623 27/135 No.1 (Syke House), Nos. 2 and 3 and range of sheds to left II Terrace of-3 houses with range of sheds attached to left. No. 1 dated 1790 on door lintel, altered in C19; sheds mid C19. Tooled squared sandstone; No. 1 has stone-flagged roof with imitation-slate rear pitch; Nos. 2 and 3 have large purple slates; stone chimney stacks. No. 1 to right.

2 storeys, each house 2 bays. Flush alternating quoins. No. 1: 4-panel door, in left bay, in flush surround with lintel inscribed: J & M.D. 1790 (John and Mary Dent); replaced casement to right with flush lintel grooved to imitate a flat arch; identical window and lintel above. Nos. 2 and 3: paired 4-panel doors with flush tooled-and-margined surrounds; flanking replaced 4-pane sashes; 2 identical windows above. Continuous steeply-pitched roof with coped gables shaped kneelers; coping at junction between Nos. and 2. End and ridge stacks with top ledges and water tables.

One-storey, 4-bay range of sheds has Dutch and boarded doors; monopitch roof sloping to rear.

Right return of No. 1 has low plinth and small fixed light in gable. Rear of No. 1 has some throughstones and scattered openings including two small 12-pane sashes.

Listing NGR: NY9667923754

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
111307
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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